[Dusty]

Originally Posted by Flagg

Hoochie cord is nylon cord we use for the 6 ends of our hoochies/shelters and for section/platoon harbour track plans in close country.

It's issued down here as a consumable in black.

From memory I think it's 2.5mm thick……can't recall the break strength on it, but certainly less than 550 cord(and a good bit thinner).

From memory I've got 6m(about 20 feet) of fishing line and hoochie cord each.

On my primary ALICE Pack I run both hoochie cord and 550 cord in a weaved pack handle on the frame that stows away with some "calamari ring" slices of bicycle inner tube rubber so if I run our of either as a needed consumable I can always unravel my pack handle for a bit of spare.

To be honest, the 6m is based on just fooling around a bit and space/weight consideration. I haven't tried to "live" it.

I help run a course with a survival phase and I'd like to consider incorporating a self-made survival kit component into it for self-learning/development, so this thread(and others) is helpful in that effort.

Any food down there you can set snares to catch?